Shelf Life

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Shelf Life

Name: Shelf Life
Released: 1993
Rating: 76.13
Cast: Paul Bartel, O-Lan Jones, Jim Turner, Andrea Stein

1993

Comedy

Drama

1h 21m

In 1963, a paranoid middle-class couple locks themselves and their small kids in their nuclear fallout shelter. 30 years later, their oblivious son and two daughters still survive there playing absurd games. A play-based dark comedy. (imdb)

Directed by:

Paul Bartel

Written by:

Jim Turner

O-Lan Jones Andrea Stein

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Starring:

Jim Turner

Paul Bartel

O-Lan Jones Andrea Stein

Genres:

Comedy, Drama, Musical

Country:

USA

Language:

English

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Shelf Life

1993

Comedy

Drama

1h 21m

Your probable score

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FrancoGonzo

Rated 18 Dec 2023

Gregzilla

Rated 19 Jun 2023

iconogassed

Rated 27 Oct 2019

Bartel's last is a deranged and brilliant and almost totally unseen something or other about three siblings raised in a bomb shelter, playacting and swapping familial roles in ritualized re-enactments of television shows (punishment is internment with Mom & Dad's carcasses). Plays no-shit like some cinematic ideal of "image-fiction" as articulated in Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram", tube as baffler of bonds, instructor of values, wellspring(/evaporator) of language and myth. "et cetera et cetera"

Rated 27 Oct 2019

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